1.1 Explain what is meant by: * Diversity * Equality * Inclusion * Discrimination Diversity is recognising that though people may have things in common‚ they are all different in many ways. Diversity is valuing and accepting those differences Equality is treating everyone in a way that is fairly to them. Not to be confused with treating everybody exactly the same. (e.g. if a person with difficulty walking wanted get to the second floor‚ you would provide them with other ways‚
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LETTER TO CONGRESS 1-10-2015 The Honorable Congressman Mark Meadows Washington‚ DC Office 1516 Longworth HOB Washington‚ DC 20515 Phone: (202) 225-6401 Fax: (202) 226-6422 Re: Helping Expedite and Advance Expanding Primary Care Access and Workforce Act (S.2229) Dear Congressman Meadows: My name is Misty Sneed and I am a Registered Nurse currently working in the state of North Carolina. I am writing to express my support for the Expanding Primary Care Access and Workforce Act This act was introduced
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attention across the country. The controversy regarding "racial profiling" has centered on police departments’ practices related to traffic stopsexamining whether police have targeted drivers based on their race or ethnicity. Significant anecdotal evidence has suggested that some departments may be treating drivers of some races or ethnicities differently than white drivers. Parties using multiple definitions have complicated the debate over racial profiling. Variation among these definitions means that
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Letter to Congress University of Phoenix February 19‚ 2014 Antoinette Iskenian‚ RN Kathy Boyden‚ MSN Antoinette Iskenian RN 222 5th St. Clovis‚ CA 93612 February 13‚ 2014 The Honorable Devin Nunes Suite 1013 Longworth House Office Building United States House of Representatives Washington‚ D.C. 20515 Dear Representative Nunes: I am writing to request that you support S. 1950: Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits‚ and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014. I understand
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whip‚ formally known as an “assistant party leader‚” is to keep track of the number of votes for and against a piece of legislation. Also‚ they are supposed to “whip up” support among the chamber membership. There are two types of committees in Congress: standing committees and select committees. Standing committees are permanent and are the more important type of committee. Standing committees have the power to propose and write legislation that covers a particular subject‚ such s finance or agriculture
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HORACE MANN MODEL CONGRESS Committee: Energy and Commerce Author: Yinge ZhaoAn Act to Encourage the Production and Continuation of Hydroelectric Power Plants Preamble: Whereas hydropower is one of the most widely used renewable energy sources in North America‚ and since hydroelectricity is a type of hydropower that can generate electricity‚ and since the amount of electricity generated is dependent on the size and resources of the hydroelectric power plant‚ and since the United
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the articles confederation in order to acquire a stronger national government. The article of confederation provided the states with an abundant amount of power and not a sufficient amount to the nation government. Hence why states often ignored congress and worried only about the good of their state and not as a whole nation. "The national government had neither a consistent Currency‚ nor a military force‚ nor the power to regulate trade‚ nor the power to levy taxes." Although the people were free
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stratification (Parsons‚ 1970). Whilst complete societal equality may be unattainable‚ Equal Opportunities (EO) policies aim to ‘reduce the gap’. Inequality takes different forms and there is much theoretical debate regarding which grouping variables‚ such as gender or age‚ are important. There exist three key notions of ‘equality of opportunity’: formal‚ liberal and radical. The former two are minimalist concepts‚ concerned principally with equality of opportunity - the ‘beginning’ of the process. Conversely
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Congress of Vienna (1815) In September 1814 June 1815‚ the leaders who vanquished Napoleon‚ European representatives‚ and those who believe they were in "high circles" gathered together to redraw territorial boundaries and fashion a lasting peace at the end of the Napoleonic wars after the downfall of Napoleon.  Dominated by four major victors Great Britain‚ Prussia‚ Russia‚ and Austria set peace term with France in April.  signing a crucial document  legitimacy (territories
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. . If one race be inferior to the other socially‚ the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane." 1.163 US 537(1896) Brown v. Board of Education (1954‚ 1955) Ruling in Brown v. Board have played in shaping the racial landscape in Higher educationThe case that came to be known as Brown v. Board of Education was actually the name given to five separate cases that were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the issue of segregation in public schools. These cases
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